~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-year-old a native Afghani man sought by the FBI and New York/New Jersey law enforcement in Islamic terrorist attacks, one early Saturday in Seagate, New Jersey and another Sunday evening in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, NYC is now in custody after a gun battle with law enforcement.

The episode began to unfold moments after law enforcement sent text alerts to a specified area in Linden, New Jersey informing residents to be on the lookout for the suspected jihadist describing Rahami as “armed and dangerous.”

During the brief shootout, two members of law enforcement were wounded. One officer was hit with flying glass and other took a bullet to the chest but was not seriously wounded due to his bulletproof vest.

Shortly before Rahami was taken was taken down with shot to the leg, the FBI with K-9s and Elizabeth New Jersey police raided his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey where Rahami lived with his family.

The search at Rahami’s home began after five pipe bombs were found Sunday evening at an Elizabeth, New Jersey train station not far from Rahami’s home. One of the pipe bombs exploded as a robot attempted to disarm it.

As of now, no connections have been made (officially) between Rahami and the pipe bombs found near his home. (Surprise.)

A law enforcement official, who agreed to speak about the investigation only on the condition of anonymity, said they had conclusive evidence that Mr. Rahami was connected not just to the Manhattan explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood, but also to a bombing that took place earlier on Saturday on the Jersey Shore.

The city’s police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, directed the entire patrol force of the New York Police Department — 36,000 officers — to step up their vigilance and be on the alert for Mr. Rahami.

Dozens of officers and federal agents were zeroing in on locations in New Jersey. At the same time, more than 1,000 officers from the city police force’s Critical Response Command and Emergency Service Unit were working to secure New York City landmarks, commuter hubs and other sensitive sites….

Law enforcement found a fingerprint belonging to Rahami on an unexploded device left at Seaside Heights, New Jersey where a pipe bomb exploded shortly before the Third Annual Semper Fi run in benefit or marines and sailors was scheduled to begin Saturday morning. The event was canceled.

Rahami was also connected to Saturday evening’s jihadist attack in the Chelsea area in Manhattan, NYC courtesy of a “of a cell phone left behind with a pressure cooker found on West 27th Street — blocks away from the explosion on West 23rd Street, a source told ABC News.”

The latest Islamic terrorist attack on a church south of Rouen, France in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray throws ice on Barack Obama’s assessment of the world as the “vision of violence and chaos everywhere” not being “the experience of most people.”

Two Islamic jihadists, now neutralized, began their wave of terror after entering the church during morning mass.

The priest, Father Jacques Hamel, an 86-year-old, priest was beheaded, three wounded among those taken hostage.

An elderly priest has been killed in a hostage situation in a church south of Rouen, Normandy, northern France this morning by alleged Islamist attackers. His killers, who are understood to have been shot dead by French police.

UPDATE 1320 — Islamic State claims responsibility, French President François Hollande confirms terrorist attack Media sources associated with the Islamic State have claimed the Rouen terror attack as their own, remarking that two of their own “soldiers” were responsible. Shortly beforehand the French President François Hollande told press that it was an act of terrorism and that both attackers had proclaimed their allegiance to the Islamic State. He called it a “disgusting attack”[…]

There are reports that Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, France were the target of a terrorist attack. Photos and videos posted on social media show bodies lying in the street and there are reports of dozens injured.

***LATEST UPDATE!*** The driver of the truck that killed at least 80 people in Nice on Thursday evening was a 31-year-old MUSLIM resident born in Tunisia, according to French newspaper Nice Matin.

The hostages were given a test by their ISIS tormentors: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished. Those who passed were given food. Those who failed were slaughtered. Three American students were slaughtered.

The ISIS terrorists who slaughtered 20 foreign hostages inside a Bangladeshi café spared those who could recite passages from the Koran — and the gunmen even made sure their pious prisoners were well fed during the tense, 10-hour standoff[…]

The suspected Islamic terrorist, a US citizen of Afghan heritage, who killed at least 50 people and wounded 53 after taking 30 party-goers hostage inside a gay club in Orlando has been identified. Law enforcement sources have identified the shooter, who was wielding an assault rifle and a handgun, and possible explosive device, as a Muslim named Omar Saddiqui Mateen, from Port St. Lucie in Florida. Police are investigating the mass shooting as an act of Islamic terrorism.

CNN The shooter is not from the Orlando area, Mina said. He has been identified as Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, about 120 miles southeast of Orlando, two law enforcement officials tell CNN. Orlando authorities said they consider the violence an act of domestic terror. The FBI is involved. While investigators are exploring all angles, they “have suggestions the individual has leanings towards (Islamic terrorism), but right now we can’t say definitely,” said Ron Hopper, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Orlando bureau.

At least 50 people were killed inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, Orlando Police Chief John Mina and other officials said Sunday morning, just hours after a shooter opened fire in what appears to be the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 53 more people were injured, he said. Police have shot and killed the gunman, Mina told reporters.

Oh, here we go, Orlando imam tries to feed us the usual Muslim crap sandwich. “Let’s not rush to judgement.” “Need more gun control.” “Nothing to do with Islam.”